9 Month Appointment/Bible Study/Sleep

(This picture makes me wish I would use my good camera....I just love this of her holding the remote and wish it was better quality...she is about the only person that her daddy will relinquish the remote to!)

The Princess 9 month appointment went great. She is really 9 1/2 months old now. She weighed 18.2 pounds so we are back in the 50th percentile. She had dropped below the 25th percentile in March so we had been going for weekly weight checks for a while and saw she was gaining weight. During that time I was making her avocado baby food because it is high in calories. She absolutely loved it while her dad and I do not like avocados...yuck!! It was an easy well visit today because there was NO SHOTS!!!

She did so good at the doctor and then we ran by the church to pick up the new Bible Study Books. The Bible Study group I am in just started a new study. It is a Beth Moore study (our group really likes Beth Moore studies). We are doing the "Loving Well" study. It can be used for a retreat or a 4 week study. Since we only meet every other week it will take us 8 weeks to complete the whole study and end the end of May. We normally take the summer off and start a study back around September. I just love our Bible Study Group. It is a great group of ladies. Some of us have been in this group since September 2006 so we have had a chance to really get to know each other.

I am so tired today. The Princess did not sleep very well last night. As you saw in my previous post she did not really go to bed until around 11:30, only to wake up a little after 12 and then about every 1 1/2 - 2 hours after that. Hopefully we can get a good nights sleep tonight. To top off her not sleeping well this past week - Hubby has been out of town but will be home this evening!!! So, I have been on my own for a week...I am tired!!!!

Well, it is time to start our evening routine and I really need to try and clean house a little.  Cleaning house is even harder now that the Princess is so mobile because you can't really take your eyes off of her.  She will still sit in her exersaucer some but when I leave the room she gets upset!

Hope you all have a great evening!!

Sleep (or lack of it) And A Goose Egg

(This is a picture of the Princess last week after going out for lunch....she was sacked out - not something she has been doing at night too early lately)

This has been quite a day or should I say quite a week! Our little princess has not wanted to really go to bed this week at a decent hour. Twice this week I have gotten her to bed at 8:30 and was so excited only for her to wake within 30 minutes or so. Anyway, Sunday night she went to bed around 9:30, Monday night around 10:30, do I even need to tell you what time on Tuesday night? You guessed it 11:30ish.....this was actually one of the nights she initially fell asleep around 8:30 but woke up!

Luckily, tomorrow is her well visit so I am going to talk to the doctor about how to get her to go to bed at a decent hour again!!

Well, as I have mentioned recently, the little princess is very mobile these days. One of the things she does is go over to the back door and pull up on the blinds. Today I was thinking about how unsafe that really is so I decided to pull the blinds up - I did not think about the little silver brackets that they go in until I saw her falling....I FELT TERRIBLE....I STILL FEEL TERRIBLE....I SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT WHEN I PULLED THE BLINDS!!!!! She ended up with a goose egg that was really red and then it brushed her eye as well so there were two red spots there. When I realized that she had a bump I called her pediatricians office and they ended up wanting to see her because of the size of it. Ok, it took me about a minute at the most I am guessing to calm her down after it happened....I cried much longer than a minute!!! The doctor's office said everything was fine. I was so glad my friend Amy called me not long after it happened and told me she would go to the doctor with me...so she came over and rode in the back seat with the sweetest little princess and kept her awake for me. Of course, when she called I was a basket case so I was relieved when she got here and told me it did not look that bad!!

I should have taken a picture when we were at the doctor's office but didn't and when I thought about it this afternoon the redness was gone and it looked better which I am very, very thankful for!!!

I know this is just the first of many bumps on the head, maybe I will handle the next one a little better....or not:)

Busy Little Princess!

(This picture is from February and you can tell these two love each other....together they are really going to keep me on my feet!!)

I thought I saw E crawl on all fours on Friday but then she would not do it again so I started questioning myself wondering if she was just scooting again. She has been scooting everywhere for a while now and she will find the smallest dot on the carpet and go for it!! Well, Saturday I figured out for sure she is crawling on all fours! Saturday afternoon I looked and she had Sadie's rawhide and not only was she holding it but yes, she was putting it in her mouth. Ok, for you all that know me well know I am a HUGE germ freak!! Now, I have been catching her crawling after Sadie when Sadie is trying to chew on her rawhide. Sadie will see her coming and move and it just continues until one of them get tired or I pick E up!!

She is also busy getting her top front teeth. One is breaking through and I can not tell if the other one is about to break through or not. Tonight she was so fussy - it just hit all of a sudden so I think it was from her teeth because after giving her a baby's dose of motrin she settled down. Hopefully, she will be able to sleep through the night and they will not bother her too much.

Tonight was a cool spring night so after tubby time tonight I put a hat on the little princess and we went for a walk. I looked down and she had fallen asleep. I think she is just a little doll!

Ok, I posted this around midnight so it is showing as a Tuesday post....when I refer to tonight, etc...I am referring to Monday night!!

Busy, Busy, Busy....

You know people have ask me "so what do you do all day now that you stay home" and my response is "I DON"T KNOW"!! I take care of my sweet little princess all day, I may get something cleaned at home and hopefully have time to cook dinner and before I know it - it is time to start E's bedtime routine.

I hate that I have not blogged for over a month! When I go back and read old post I read things that I might not have remembered had I not blogged about it when it happened. E just keeps me so busy these days that by the time night comes I am usually pretty exhausted! She has finally started taking a nap around lunch time though so maybe, just maybe I can blog during that time. One thing I did figure out is that if I get up before her I can get ready for the day and have one less thing to try and fit in the day once she is up.

Well here are some pictures of her from the past month!!  The quality is not the best because most of them were taken with my cell phone.....

Best Friends.....

Going to the dentist with mommy....a short visit

Easter Morning!

Easter Afternoon.....

First trip to one of daddy's favorite hunting/boating stores....

Shopping with mommy at Wal-Mart

I am such a big girl, I can stand up in my bed!!